An Upgrade on Idea Rating Sheets
Feedback Frames are a hardware solution that is an upgrade on my previous paper based invention called Idea Rating Sheets. My original idea rating sheets …
Idea Rating Frames
Feedback Frames are also sometimes called “idea rating frames”. Idea rating is a form of range voting. Voters give each option a score using a …
Highlights from 2017
2017 was a great year for Feedback Frames. After the public launch in the fall of 2016, with a fun video, and the accepting of …
70 Stakeholders Workshop Government Energy Plan
The Regional Municipality of Durham (Ontario, Canada) carried out two large face-to-face workshop sessions. The 70 participants consisted of Durham staff, representatives of the eight …
Grade 11 Students Survey Their Peers
High school students put down their smartphones to share their opinions using tokens. As part of a Marketing class, students in an Aurora, Ontario high …
Featured at the 2016 Public Consultation Summit
Opportunity knocked this fall. I was invited to demonstrate Feedback Frames at the 6th Annual Summit on Public Consultation and Engagement, the largest conference of …
Facilitating Facilitators during Facilitation Week
Facilitating facilitators for Facilitation Week. Really! In just 15 minutes they found consensus about consensus.
Scientists Workshop Priorities for Great Lake Research
Over 25 professional fresh water geeks created a prioritized consensus list of 40 topics for future research. What a great way to end a four-day scientific conference.
Peer Review Stories in a High School Class
Secret voting avoids peer pressure. On June 6, 2016 Mrs. Davidson invited her grade 12 English class to work in pairs to write one page …
Awesome Prototype #4 Video!
A short funny video demo of my first almost ready-for-manufacturing prototype. In February 2016, Spark Innovations delivered this fully functional prototype of what the manufactured …
The Precise Art of Amateur Scotch Tasting
A bunch of dudes had a scotch tasting party and we used Feedback Frames to record our opinions. My buddy, Mike Logan, invited a crew of …
Samara Knows Democracy
Samara, a non-profit dedicated to reconnecting citizens to politics, took my invention for a spin. I’ve always been a fan of Samara, a nonprofit, non-partisan advocacy …
“Feedback Frames” is the Name to Remember
After workshopping dozens of names with friends (especially award winning writer Andy Lee), I finally landed on “Feedback Frames” as the winner. I choose the …
My First Patent
I filed for a provisional patent to protect my invention. I’m lawyered up! Talking to my super smart social enterprise lawyer buddy, Robert Wakulat with …
Government Executives Give’em a Go!
Directors from an office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario used the frames in their executive retreat. With a bit of luck, I got the …
Diceman Family Father’s Day Demo
My first large group demonstration was with my extended family. Love you guys. My family has a tradition of celebrating Father’s Day at the …
Prototype #3 is Good to Go! (see video)
This prototype was the winner for demonstrating the value of my new invention. After realizing that pennies were too big to fit 30 per column …
Prototype #2 “Penny Thought Panel” is Too Big
Designed to fit 30 pennies, prototype #2 worked great, but did not fit letter size paper. At this stage I was trying to design the …
Prototype #1 Works! Check the Video
I made my first prototypes on October 8, 2014. They were made of 100% acrylic (just like some sweaters – 80s pop song reference anyone?) …
The Concept is Born
After 10 years of accepting that idea rating sheets are the less-than-perfect best tools for large decision-making without computers, I jumped out of bed with …